Description

The profile-photo object-type is a special version of the Photo object-type that represents a photo that the user has designated as their profile photo. 

It must contain a <link rel="preview" type="image/jpeg" href="/{URL_to_photo}" /> element where the href attribute is the URL to a [relatively small] (eg: 100px x 100px) photo or depiction that the user wants to publicly represent themselves.

The image should have a 1:1 aspect ratio. 

Related Verbs

• Post

URI

What is the URI for the object? Most URIs will be in the form:

http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/profile-photo

Examples

Facebook

Related Links

Related mailing list threads:

• Idea: for avatar / profile picture
• Avatar Photos

Howard Liptzin has raised the value and use of historical/contextual profile photos.

Implementations

None

Status

This page depicts an object-type that is currently being investigated. It is NOT part of the core schema.

Maintainers

• Rob Dolin
• Chris Messina